A lazy afternoon, a small plane and loads of sand... (Day 3-5, Nazca)

After an early bustrip from Lima, I spend my first day in Nazca being lazy at the swimming pool. Just relaxing in the sun, reading a bit, having a beer... the good life!

The second day I made a flight over the famous Nazca lines, huge figures in the desert sand made by the early Nazca cultures to communicate with their gods. There are figures of a bird, a monkey, a whale… As they are only visible from high altitude, the early Nazca people have never seen them their selves! Quite impressive! In the afternoon I visited some grave tombs (less impressive!) and did some shopping Nazca town.

On my third day I sandboarded the Cerdo Blanco dune, with 2000m the highest dune in the world. Although sandboarding is a kind of a slow sport (compared with snowboarding or surfing) the hike towards the top of the Cerdo Blanco was more than worth the trip! We got dropped at the bottom of the dune at about 4.00AM and hiked the first 2 hours under the moonlight. When we reached the top of the dune at about 10.30AM, the sun was already burning so we didn’t waist too much time there and boarded down. After having recovered from the early morning adventure, I took the 3PM bus to Arequipa.